Yeah, you’re right. The Byrds of course worshiped Dylan, and I’m sure he was right there on their opening night along with dozens of others.
Have no clue why Nash would split cause of that. He was the glue of Crosby, Stills, Nash etc. IMHO.
Great comment, not to be down stream from Dylan.
Where do you stop with regards to people doing Dylan’s work. I don’t recall the Beatles ever doing one of his songs, but might be wrong, or Michael Jackson.
As I remember in the liner notes of the CSNY collection I bought a number of years back, Nash wanted to play original music, wasn’t interested in doing covers so much.
As for being the glue, I’d have to give that to Stills. From my recollection, on the records, he played most of the instruments and had about a creative 18 months of writing songs as anyone has had in rock n roll.